NWQuota

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In Brief

A simple Novell home directory quota watcher.

Vitals

Posted:	13 Jun 2002
File Size:	1.86MB
License:	Free
Download:	/coolsolutions/tools/downloads/nwquota.zip
Publisher:	Jean-Francois Burdet

Disclaimer

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Details

We got this tip from Cool Solutions reader, Sami Kapanen, referring us to NWQuota to "use NetWare and volume space restrictions to restrict home directory size."

NWQuota is a small Windows 32 systray utility (distributed under GPL), which provides a simple way to monitor space restrictions on any Novell NetWare mapped drive. When the network drive steps some pre-defined thresholds, the systray icons changes from "OK-Green" to "Warning-Yellow", then after passing a second threshold it becomes "Danger-Red". It can also display the directory and/or volume restrictions in a nice windows progress bar, which makes the result understandable by anyone (which is not the case with ndir /spa ).

Because of the following two reasons, run NWQuota from the local hard drive of your workstation:
1. NWQuota holds the executable open at all times.
2. When the icon is showing 'green' - you have enough free disk space on the volume to meet the requirements as set up by the administrator snf everything is fine. However, if you go to either the 'yellow' or 'red' warning (getting short of volume space) then every time the icon flashes (once a second) NWQuota will download the icon info from the executable. This could potentially cause a significant amount of network traffic depending on how many of your users are affected.

NWQuota.exe supports French, English, German, and Dutch. If you want NWQuota displaying dialogs in another language, check the selection in "Regional Settings" of the Windows Control Panel.

English users, NWQuota will show English dialogs unless you are running a French, Dutch, German version of Windows.

If you find this software useful, please make a donation to the International Red Cross or another charity organization of your choice.

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Reader Comments

• don't trust some of the above reader's comment : try it by yourself, it does work well.
• NW6.0.4 with NSS and Clustered Volumes. Does not interpret home directory attribute. Does not work.
• Works fine on Nw 6.0/6.5 & NSS, even on clustered volumes. Using v1.42. There were some problems with newer 1.5 version! You can get older versions from: http://www.unige.ch/~burdetj/nwquota/bin/
• Yep, v1.42 is the one that we are currently using in our environment, with thousands of users. -Sami Kapanen
• NwQuota homepage seems to be down. But the nwquota.zip from Novell site includes also the older versions, look for the nwquota.exe.142 in the bin folder -sk
• idea for when you have loads of nasty disk hogs!
• Very nice! Although it only works if you have a restriction set (i.e. you can't just run it on vol1: without setting up a dummy restriction equal to the size of the volume)
• this freeware is very interresting. i'm french netware administrator for the LESIEUR (oil) www.lesieur.fr and i use this for my 450 users
• I think this is a great one of a kind tool, but I seem to get inaccurate numbers. The properties on my home folder say 125mb, but nwquota says it's over 400mb. I'm running NW6 with NSS. Also, the website for this tool is down. I'm assuming by the message that they aren't happy with the US.